"No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon."
Matthew 6:24
King James Version (KJV)
Mammon is the "Greek form of a Syriac or Aramaic word for 'money', 'riches', 'property', 'worldly goods', or 'profit'...He meant that no one can be a slave of God and worldly wealth at the same time. The undivided concentration of mind to money-getting is incompatible with wholehearted devotion to God and His service," Holman Illustrated Bible Dictionary. Who are we loyalty to? We can't be loyal to God while being loyal to materials. We have to be focused, solely dependent upon our God. I have my eye on a husband. Well, I'm not serving God by this. I should know that worrying & seeking after things besides God is not making me a slave to Him, but to this world. Psalm 23:1 says it the best, "The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want." Fully focusing on God, putting on Christ, walking in the Spirit requires all of me-not just partial.
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